AFGHANISTAN: Ban calls for greater efforts to tackle child rights violations

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Summary: Ban Ki-moon presents the findings of a new report on children's rights violations in Afghanistan.

Following a signed agreement between the UN and the Afghan government, in which the country made a commitment to enforce the protection of children affected by armed conflict and to prevent the recruitment of children into the national armed forces, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has released a new report on children's rights violations in Afghanistan, in which he says that greater efforts are required to tackle the persistence of violations in the country, which include:

  • the use of children in armed conflict as soldiers and suicide bombers
  • child casualties as a result of armed conflict including those killed in air strikes and by landmines
  • children detained in international military forces detention facilities
  •  and the sexual abuse of children which often goes unreported due to social stigma and unpunished due to the fact that the crime itself is not clearly defined as such in Afghan law. 

Mr. Ban strongly encourages the Government to work closely with the Country Task Force to strengthen reporting under Security Council resolution 1882 (2009) on sexual violence against children and killing and maiming of children, and to ensure an appropriate and swift programme and accountability response for victims of such violations.

 

Further Information:

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/N1121744.pdf

Country: 
Afghanistan
Issues: 
Gender and girls
Physical abuse
Sexual exploitation
Violence: 
Sexual exploitation
Physical abuse
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